TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is on course to raise Japan's sales tax as scheduled in a crucial step toward fixing the nation's tattered finances, despite calls in his government to water down the increase, senior coalition officials said on Wednesday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Chinese shares rose after Beijing pledged to keep economic growth stable in the second half of the year, while the dollar held onto slight gains as market momentum stalled ahead of the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting on Wednesday.
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BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top career diplomat met China's foreign minister on Tuesday in the latest bid to ease strains between Asia's two biggest economies over a bitter territorial row, while a Chinese official newspaper said Beijing had ruled out a leaders' summit.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - All Nippon Airways &lt;9202.T&gt; said on Tuesday it will buy three Boeing Co &lt;BA.N&gt; 777-300ER jets and one 767 cargo aircraft, with the orders worth $1.13 billion based on the airplane maker's list price.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo shares tumbled on Friday on the back of a stronger yen and the dollar languished at a five-week low against a basket of currencies as investors waited for clarity on U.S. stimulus at the Federal Reserve's policy meeting next week.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Friday it aims to cut a combined 10 billion yen ($100 million) in costs in its television and PC businesses in the year to March 2014 and double that figure in the following year to cope with persistently weak demand.
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Mitsubishi Motors Corp vehicles are seen at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, in this April 25, 2013 file photo. Mitsubishi Motors Corp warned on July 30, 2013 of further falls in demand in Thailand, Southeast Asia's largest car market, after Bangkok ended subsidies for first-time buyers last yea

Tokyo businessmen wait for a train at Shimbashi station in Tokyo July 30, 2013. Japan's jobless rate hit its lowest level in four and a half years in June and the availability of jobs hit the highest in five years, boding well for the government's efforts to revive the economy and end deflation. REU

A Komatsu Ltd's excavator is seen at a construction site in Tokyo in this October 30, 2012 file photo. Construction work in China is rapidly picking up even as the economy slows, with the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy equipment Komatsu Ltd saying on Monday it expects the worst to be o